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...around 4 a.m. to shift the journalistic process into overdrive. An hour later, the first dispatch was received from White House Correspondent Douglas Brew, but another hour passed before a phone connection could be made with Beirut. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart had made it to the bomb site shortly after the explosion and was ready to dictate his first files. Said he: "In almost four years of covering the Middle East, I have never seen a more appalling or sickening sight than I saw this morning...
That process is a fitful one. The scheduled "national reconciliation" talks between the Lebanese government and factional leaders, set to begin last Thursday at the Beirut airport, were canceled, then tentatively rescheduled for this week in Geneva - a considerably more secure site, as Sunday's bombings grimly confirmed. The four-week-old truce in Lebanon seemed to be ever more fragile, as each army and armed gang used the respite to rebuild spent arsenals. Last week the Administration was becoming convinced that Syria has decided its best bet for preserving its leverage over the country is to wait...
...situation was bizarre. In a minor incident whose initial form was to be echoed large half a world away a few hours later, a lone driver had rammed his truck through the gates of Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club, site of the Masters Tournament. Reagan had been playing the par-three, water-guarded 16th hole under cloudy skies with two Cabinet officers and a former Senator. Now he was seated in a Secret Service car parked near the 16th green trying to talk by radiotelephone to the driver holding hostages in the famed club's pro shop...
...Technology quoted one U.S. space official as saying, "Salyut 7 is essentially dead in the water." Eighteen days later a Soyuz ferry ship loaded with a fresh crew and additional supplies exploded on the launch pad. The two cosmonauts escaped certain death by lifting off from the flaming launch site with a small escape rocket that let them drop down two miles away by parachute...
...commission halted construction because of Cincinnati Gas' continued failure to meet its quality guidelines, the first time that the NRC had ever taken such a step when construction was so far advanced. Some of the steel used at Zimmer was scrap that was arbitrarily upgraded on the site. About 70% of the welds on the plant's structural beams did not meet industry standards. To test the welds now, inspectors will in some cases have to cut out at random one made by each of the hundreds of welders who have worked on the project, examine...